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Lightroom for mobile 2.1, now available!

We’re excited to announce an update to Lightroom for iOS just in time for the holidays! This new version adds a bunch of new features, including:

iPad Pro support and support for iOS 9’s multitasking capabilities

Point Curve mode for the Tone Curve and the Split Tone adjustments tool

Support for 3D touch and a new widget to launch the Adobe built-in camera from the iOS Notification Center

New shoot-through presets in the Adobe built-in camera, and more.

The launch of the iPad Pro has gotten us all pretty excited at Adobe. The ability to take such a powerful and yet compact device on the road with us, and the new opportunities it offers, has gotten us thinking about what new possibilities we can add into Lightroom for mobile. In this release, we optimized the app to work on an iPad Pro and to also support the multitasking functionality new in iOS 9. On iPads and iPad Pros, Lightroom for iOS 2.1 enables both the Slide Over functionality so that you can quickly interact with other apps without having to switch apps as well as Split View so that you can run two apps at once, such as reading a tutorial while working within Lightroom.

We are constantly working to make Lightroom for mobile more and more powerful, and this update adds in both the Point Curve mode for the Tone Curve tool, as well as the Split Toning adjustment tool. With the Point Curve mode, you can have full control over the curve, as well as direct access to each of the color channels. This level of control previously has only been available in our desktop apps, so we’re pretty excited that now you can really tweak your images anywhere. The Split Toning tool makes it possible to add a different tint or tone to both the highlights and shadows of your photo. This effect is great both creating artistic and stylistic enhancements with color photos, something that we’ve seen become a lot more popular recently, or to recreate an effect that was more traditionally used in black and white photography.

Since we’re often using our mobile devices on the go, we’re always looking for ways to make it easier and faster to work with Lightroom for iOS. The 3D touch functionality introduced with the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus opened up a new realm of possibilities for speeding up interaction. With Lightroom for iOS 2.1, you can use 3D touch on the home screen to open the camera directly or in the collection view to Peek and Pop an image, to quickly check which image you’d like to edit before moving into the Loupe view. Lightroom for iOS 2.1 also adds a Notification Center widget that lets you quickly open the camera found within Lightroom for mobile.In Lightroom for mobile 2.0 we added in a brand-new camera experience, built from the ground up to provide powerful new capture experiences.

In version 2.1, we’ve added in a new exciting feature that lets you preview and capture images in real-time with a preset applied. These presets take full advantage of the full processing abilities of Lightroom and apply their enhancements non-destructively. This means you can see what your photo will look like with the preset applied before you capture it, capture the photo with the preset already applied, and then adjust or even remove the effect from the photo, all without losing any quality along the way. And of course, the original image and the edits are synchronized with your other mobile devices, Lightroom on the web, and Lightroom on your Mac or PC. These shoot-through presets are one of the first ways we’ve made the Adobe in-app camera within Lightroom for mobile a truly unique and powerful experience, and we’re just getting started.

In addition to all of these major new features, we’ve added a bunch of little enhancements and improvements throughout the app. We’re continuing to work hard to come up with new, fun features that make mobile photography even more enjoyable, and look forward to sharing those new features with you in the new year.

5 Responses to Lightroom for mobile 2.1, now available!

Still no progress with ability to maintain basic metadata, such as Title, Caption, Comment, Copyright and Location.

It is seriously painful to be able to integrate metadata between Lightroom, InDesign and Photoshop. I do not use the Lightroom Mobile app, so these developments are currently academic to me. Maybe when the metadata gets some love I will be more eager to use this app.

I am disappointed with each new releasr that this area is completely ignored. The iPad is a perfect tool for maintaining metadata.
Regards.

Metadata editing is an often-voiced request – and while not everyone is going to find it useful – there are a significant number of people who every release are disappointed that Adobe is duplicating features that other apps already do well (e.g. Aviary or even Photoshop Mobile), but ignoring anything to do with managing photos.

The flagging and rating IS great. Thank you Adobe. But this hasn’t been improved since LR Mobile v1. We are waiting for title, caption, keywords and ideally other fields as possible. Now that Photosmith, which had a brilliant interface and flaky sync, is RIP this is leaving a lot of Lightroom users without any option.

Couldn’t agree more with both posts above, and especially the Photosmith comment. I LOVED wirelessly tethering to Photosmith on my iPad, doing all my rating / reviewing on it, then doing a metadata-only sync of Photosmith to Lightroom on my desktop to match up the metadata from Photosmith with the raw’s in Lightroom. So I agree with the posters above about better photo management in LrM being needed far more than the features that Adobe seems to be focusing on, and I’d add wireless tethering to that list.

BTW – When is LrM on Android getting the new version 2 LrM interface? It still has the awful old scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll UI.

Just noticed LR Web now allows you to edit the Title and Caption, great!!
Can’t figure out a way to edit these fields with dedicated keyboard shortcuts yet but hoping that is coming – one thing most ppl I know love about LR is that you can use just the keyboard to tag, title and navigate through photos.
Here’s hoping keywords in LR Mobile and Web isn’t far away. Thanks for this useful update Adobe!